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Noise in the helical edge channel anisotropically coupled to a local spin

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2019-01-15 v1

Abstract

We calculate the frequency-dependent shot noise in the edge states of a two-dimensional topological insulator coupled to a magnetic impurity with spin S=1/2S=1/2 of arbitrary anisotropy. If the anisotropy is absent, the noise is purely thermal at low frequencies, but tends to the Poissonian noise of the full current II at high frequencies. If the interaction only flips the impurity spin but conserves those of electrons, the noise at high voltages eVTeV\gg T is frequency-independent. Both the noise and the backscattering current IbsI_{bs} saturate at voltage-independent values. Finally, if the Hamiltonian contains all types of non-spin-conserving scattering, the noise at high voltages becomes frequency-dependent again. At low frequencies, its ratio to 2eIbs2eI_{bs} is larger than 1 and may reach 2 in the limit Ibs0I_{bs}\to 0. At high frequencies it tends to 1.

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@article{arxiv.1810.05831,
  title  = {Noise in the helical edge channel anisotropically coupled to a local spin},
  author = {K. E. Nagaev and S. V. Remizov and D. S. Shapiro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.05831},
  year   = {2019}
}

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5 pages, 2 figs